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Hello! If you are a programmer looking for a spare project to help, Microsoft's Small Basic is it! We are currently looking for volunteers to help develop .NET extensions for it and spread the word! If you are interested, please visit smallbasic.com to get started! Happy Thanksgiving!

How many thousands of projects in development would welcome input from the developers that visit CP?

Attention experienced professional programmers, my boss gave me this assignment in a language I've never done before,which has forced me to become a student of new stuff, with an extremely high dose of "duh" moments, as opposed to my regular area of expertise where I'm a whizkid expert know-it-all.

If you are looking for a spare project to help (while I get paid and you don't) this task is it !

Actually, it's not such a bad deal, when you examine the full context.

People who get their name on "the team" who help to make that (into whatever it becomes) will be able to put the emperor's new buzzwords on their resume' and have the edge in capturing work for the next great project (typically created by non-nerds who believe that websites magically create money out of thin air).

But, I took the plunge because I wanted to do reinstalls of my machines to have a clear out, and also move my main pc to a SSD. It also coincidently fixed a GPU issue that I thought was hardware related!

Imagine my suprise after using windows 8 over the weekend and going to work and trying the same on a windows XP machine

Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch

Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
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Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett